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no worries. Sorry you were "grumpy for no reason." -- it was fun just getting to hang out with everyone. It was also fun to play "extrovert" for an evening.

Urgh on towing. What are you planning on for your next tattoo?

Thanks for the compliment on the profile pic! Icing is some of my favorite stuff! And I fell off the face of the earth for a while - it's good to be back and great to see you last night!

but i love it.

nice. i hate calling people to find stuff out.

funny story: all the profs in a grad program GENERALLY let grad students use their 1st name (this is not univeral. at UChicago tradition was that everyone went by Mr/Ms - including students - so it was equal respect for all). but law schools are different - they still use "profesor X." i work for a guy at the law school (who is a JD/Phd) - and i call him by his 1st name. all his law students, call him "professor." it's just ... odd.

i haven't... maybe we could go there? would you be cool at meeting at my office, and then we could walk over? say 1ish? I'll pm you my address

whenever i apologize for something, there's some little part of me that's just waiting for somebody to lay into me. on the rare occassion that it happens, that part of me feels all vindicated, and takes over for a while.

yeah, my parents believed that if they gave me a car, or helped me pay for one, or cosigned, that it would instantly turn me into a spoiled brat. so i skipped over the junker teenage car, and went directly to the grownup car. i'm kinda happy with that.

Oh... did we already have a conversation about this one of the Math groups?

For the record, yours looks way better than mine, and no, it doesn't make you look fat.

Thank you, sweetie.
A friend e-mailed me the other day asking how we were. It's like "We're great. Dad? Not so much."


You rule.

I'm sorry about the mirrors dude. you know if I had mirrors, they'd be all yours.
and yes, I love the soysage... gimme lean has gotten the best reviews so far. even the boy admits that you'd never be able to tell it wasn't meat... he loves it I love getting a carnivore to love tofu-- it's so cute when they finally (grumpily) admit it

oh, ok. That makes a kind of sense. Though I've never heard of "base-31"

No cane, just crutches, alas. Canes are totally hot.

i as well am sitting on the credit card balance of a lifetime. and then add to that the school loans that are about to start accumulating. but for some reason... some unknown reason... i as well just feel like it's going to be ok. it'll all work out. somehow. maybe i'm living in a fantasty world. i dunno!

it was so great you came out... thank you so much!

I still want to buy some of your paintings, I'm very sure I will see them in some Big Important Gallery some day